TORRINGTON >> A 39-year-old woman told police that Randy Brumell raped her inside his East Main Street bicycle shop in March after kidnapping her at gunpoint, according to a recently unsealed Torrington police arrest warrant application.

The woman had previously dated Brumell and met him in Torrington to talk, according to the warrant. After an angry Brumell verbally berated the victim, he took her back to his East Main Street store and raped her, the victim told police.

Brumell, 33, was due in Litchfield Judicial District court on Tuesday, but his case was continued after his attorney notified the court of a scheduling conflict. It was the second time Brumell's attorney, Raymond Kotulski of Waterbury, had to miss a scheduled appearance. His client is being held on $750,000 bond and has been charged with first-degree sexual assault, second-degree kidnapping, first-degree unlawful restraint, criminal possession of a firearm, and other charges, including alleged drug offenses relating from a search of his home, business and vehicle during the investigation into the rape that police said turned up marijuana and drug paraphernalia.

According to the unsealed warrant application, on March 11, Torrington police Detective Kyle Johnson went to Yale-New Haven Hospital where the victim was receiving treatment.

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The victim had told hospital officials she was sexually assaulted in Torrington on March 10. A rape evidence kit was performed by hospital staff.

Johnson said the victim informed him she has known Brumell since the end of January 2013 and had a relationship with him. She said on March 10, around 11 p.m., she drove to Torrington to meet with Brumell at his 6 Victoria St. home. Brumell suggested they get into his van and go to his store, Brumell's Cycle and Fitness, 911 East Main St., to talk there.

The victim told police they got into Brumell's black utility work van, detailed with his business name on the outside, and started driving. During the drive, the victim said Brumell became angry and started yelling at her, apparently upset about a previous date the victim had canceled.

The victim told the detective Brumell "continuously stopped the van very abruptly to yell at her," at one point hitting the brakes so hard she flew forward. The victim said she tried to get out of the van, but Brumell grabbed her by the arm and pulled out a silver gun.

Brumell, the victim said, "then began yelling about how he is a gangster and she shouldn't mess with him."

The victim eventually escaped the van on a side street off of East Main Street and called her friend, telling her Brumell had a gun. Brumell then turned the van around, and approached the victim with the gun in his waistband, telling her to get back into the van, which she did because she was afraid, according to the warrant.

Brumell took the woman back to his shop and led her inside, yelling at her and pushing her up against the front windows. She asked him to put the gun down and he did, eventually calming down. He then instructed her to get on the ground and began having sex with her. The victim told police she only had sex with him because she was "scared for her life."

The victim also gave police voice messages from Brumell just after midnight that picked up the arguments between the two, along with a call around 3 a.m. asking her to talk to him and again at 3:30 where Brumell states, "You know I'm just really sorry for what I did. You know I vow now to never ever hurt you like that, physically, emotionally," according to the warrant.

Police later searched Brumell's home, business and van and located a handgun in the store, which had been reported stolen out of Lexington, N.C. Brumell has at least four felony convictions since 1997 for narcotics sales and criminal weapon possession, police said, making it illegal for him to be in possession of a gun.

After the search, Brumell was arrested on marijuana-related charges and questioned in the presence of his attorney about the rape allegations. Brumell told detectives the sex was consensual. When Detective Johnson asked Brumell about where his gun was at the time of the sex, Brumell's attorney stopped him from answering and said they weren't going to answer questions about the gun, and that Burmell was not holding her at gunpoint.

Brumell, who was released on bond after the drug arrest, was re-arrested on April 26 in Torrington.